Marc Williams, author of the WTO study, is Professor of International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Previously he held appointments at the University of Sussex and John Hopkins University.

He is author of Third World Cooperation: The Group of 77 in UNCTAD (Pinter, 1991) and International Economic Organisation and the Third World (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994), as well as co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). He has published on the WTO and on civil society and the WTO in a number of edited collections, most recently ‘Civil Society and the World Trading System’, in D. Kelly and W. Grant (eds.) The Politics of International Trade: Actors, Issues, and Regional Dynamics (Palgrave, 2005), and has published on the trade issues in inter alia Global Environmental Politics and Journal of World Trade.